Legal Opinion
United States v. Donald Lee Earles and Catherine Papajohn
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 18, 1997No. 96-1246PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEAM, Circuit Judge.
The government appeals the district court’s judgment of acquittal in favor of de fendants Donald Lee Earles and Catherine Papajohn. We reverse.
I. BACKGROUND
On October 24, 1991, a grand jury indicted Donald Lee Earles (Earles) and Catherine Papajohn (Papajohn) for their roles in the burning of the Countryside IGA in Sloan, Iowa. Count One of the indictment charged Earles with maliciously damaging and destroying the grocery store and Papajohn with aiding and abetting that destruction. The indictment further charged Earles and Papa-john with: (1) devising a scheme to defraud…
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